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title: ★★★ What would happen if you said "le tour Eiffel" to a Parisian? — Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ What would happen if you said "le tour Eiffel" to a Parisian? Test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★

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★★★ What would happen if you said "le tour Eiffel" to a Parisian?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, you · **What happens:** ★, happen, say · **To what, where:** tour, Parisian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «Olympiad: gender-pattern puzzles ★★★» of the French course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:t12:1
# text = ★★★ What would happen if you said "le tour Eiffel" to a Parisian?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	le	le	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	Eiffel	Eiffel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Parisian	Parisian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **★** | present | ★ |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | le tour | a Parisian |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tour=Topic to parisian=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Nobody would understand anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:t12:o1:1
# text = Nobody would understand anything
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **understand** | would | Nobody | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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You'd be talking about a trip, not the tower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:t12:o2:1
# text = You'd be talking about a trip, not the tower
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | would · progressive | You | the tower |  |  |  | about a trip | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about trip=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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You'd be talking about a cake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:t12:o3:1
# text = You'd be talking about a cake
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | would · progressive | You |  |  |  |  | about a cake | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cake=Topic |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It would be perfectly correct

```conllu
# sent_id = question:french:38-olympiad-gender-pattern-puzzles:t12:o4:1
# text = It would be perfectly correct
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  |  |  | correct, perfectly *property* | tree rules |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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